India May Lose Rs 46 Lakh Crore Due To Gender Inequality: McKinsey

Discrimination against women is not new in India; it’s an historical phenomenon. You will be surprised to know that for the same amount of work, women are paid 62% le...

India’s Tryst With Skill Development.

When Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister of the country, there was this general perception that things will change, and transform for the better. There have been differ...

How To Go About Skill Development In Rural India

With a meager 2.4 per cent of existent landmass, India has been a homeland for 17.5 per cent of total population of the globe. The distribution of Indian population is conc...

How Women Contribute $3 Trillion To Global Healthcare

The traditional focus on women’s health tends to emphasise only their healthcare needs. But women are important providers – as much as they are recipients &ndas...

Gender Equality and Earth’s Future

Twenty years ago, the adoption by 189 governments of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action marked a turning point in the history of women’s rights. This pro...

Jennifer Garner And Save The Children Feature On New Documentary

The low-cost, Save the Children home-visiting program that actor/advocate Jennifer Garner and journalist Nicholas Kristof explored last night in the new PBS documentary A P...

OF MISOGYNY, MENTAL HEALTH, STORYTELLING AND ALL INDIA BAKHCHOD!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius - and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~ Marilyn Monroe

It has now been a long time that I ...

India may miss U.N. Millennium Development Goal for maternal mortality rate

India, which accounts for the largest number of maternal deaths in the world, is unlikely to achieve the fifth Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality to...

Empowering women is good for the economy

Last month, the Gujarat state government in India instituted a two-week celebration on the empowerment of women. The celebration quickly subsided when the police took actio...